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  • The only thing keeping me from using it as my only file explorer is the fact that it doesn't support SMB shares.

  • Why in 2024 do people still believe in religion? (serious)
  • Atheist here. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Atheism is merely about trusting what's been proven, or has some evidence backing the claim that can be verified without doubt. Being agnostic is being indecisive about everything, even things that are completely made up.

  • Singh 'more alarmed' after reading report, but won't break from Liberal-NDP agreement
  • I think the benefit of knowing the names publicly might be the public's ability to then no longer elect these people, which cuts off the foreign interference at the root, as far as can be done within the country. It might also act as a deterrent for future MPs knowing their names could be released if they too partake in this behavior. It would accomplish stamping out the problem and publicly shaming these people for the rest of their careers.

    Not saying it's realistically feasible or prudent overall to actually release them though.

  • Canada's 1st full-scale free grocery store to open in Regina
  • All good points. There's definitely no perfect or even close to perfect solution.

  • Canada's 1st full-scale free grocery store to open in Regina
  • Yeah that's probably the strongest point in favour of letting people pick what they want. But I guess a potential downside of that could be if people start stocking up mostly on only a few select items that everyone else also wants., leaving nothing behind for them. But I guess that's mitigated by seeing that happen a few times then specifically trying to get even more of those select items going forward.

  • Canada's 1st full-scale free grocery store to open in Regina
  • Yeah that's a good point. If you can't see what people are leaving behind, you can't know what to stop taking more of. I guess you need to generate some short-term waste in order to properly tune things as needed, to hopefully reach a point where you're reducing waste as much as possible in the longer term.

  • Canada's 1st full-scale free grocery store to open in Regina
  • I wonder if letting people pick their own items really reduces waste more than the hamper system? What happens to items left on the shelf that no one takes? That's probably the same stuff that would be ignored from a hamper? I'm admittedly pretty ignorant of food banks generally, but I would think that the hamper system would be trying to encourage people to eat whatever they get, to both reduce waste by making sure all items get out there from the bank, and to ensure there's enough of everything coming in to go around evenly? I can see this maybe resulting in the better items going first, and a bunch of less desirable items always being left behind to rot. Does that tend to happen in this type of system or not?

  • Were living in the 21st century — let's learn to pick up our own trash
  • Can confirm, I'm living there right now. People here tend to take proper personal responsibility for their own garbage and mess.

  • How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode
  • You shouldn't be charged for unauthorized requests to your buckets. Currently if you know any person's bucket name, which is easily discoverable if you know what you're doing, that means you can maliciously rack up their bill just to hurt them financially by spamming it with anonymous requests.

  • Safest way of using WeChat on Android?
  • The good thing about getting one from the start is that you can set it up to your liking from the get-go and won't have to do it later. You'll also get used to using it daily and see how managing two devices works for you.

  • Safest way of using WeChat on Android?
  • Yeah this is what I use to create and manage a work profile on my device to keep my personal and work data/apps separate.

  • Safest way of using WeChat on Android?
  • You could sandbox it into a work profile that doesn't have access to your main profile. Storage is completely segregated, and the work profile can be easily disabled when you're not using it.

    The best solution is obviously to choose another platform and convince your girlfriend to use that, explaining how this little extra effort on her part to use another app goes a long way with you in terms of appreciation and understanding of a partner's boundaries and comfort zone.

  • Handling large bursts of POST requests to your ActivityPub inbox, using a buffer in Nginx
  • I can only see this being effective if the Nginx instance isn't also responsible for reverse-proxying the frontend traffic, and if it's not running on the same server as the frontend or backend (ie. decoupled from the infrastructure serving the stack). Haven't looked at the article yet but I'm assuming they would recommend provisioning the infrastructure with that decoupling, or it wouldn't make much sense.

  • Other Patient Gamers Communities
  • It's possible to manually find communities on a given instance instead of using an indexer. I'm guessing that's how most people found it.

  • Introducing Coaxist: a single Docker container for running Plex + Debrid with automatic request fetching
  • I know it's been around for a long time, but I just heard about Real Debrid. My current setup is Wasabi + Rclone + Jellyfin, plus all the *arr services. What's the benefit of Real Debrid over this setup, aside from cached torrents?

  • Linus Tech Tips apology video - BEST PARTS
  • Doubt he was referencing that, but I think it's clear that pistol fingers isn't inherently something to be offended by on its own.

  • Linus Tech Tips apology video - BEST PARTS
  • Yeah, I just don't get where all the high tension emotional comments about his segment are coming from. It's honestly weird.

  • UK Nurse Lucy Letby guilty of murdering seven babies at Chester Hospital
  • What a sorry state Canada is in when people are hired out of desperation without proper vetting to ensure they are suited to their jobs, even if there is a nurse shortage.

    EDIT: Ah thought I was in a Canada community, my mistake. But I guess there are worldwide problems in healthcare these days.

  • Linus Tech Tips apology video - BEST PARTS
  • Edit. Down voted for asking. Is this reddit? What happened to lemmy?

    That's the vibe I was getting here too, there's been a lot of downvoting of totally innocent questions and non-aggressive commentary. I don't get where all of the anger's coming from over some of the productive conversations and sharing of ideas going on here.

    But to share my opinion about your question, even if Luke were making a sex joke during his segment, having watched the entire video, I personally feel it was pretty tame. The only thing he did during his entire time on-screen that anyone is upset about is exactly the clip you saw in the linked video. Just those couple of seconds as they are. Everything before that was plain and simple talk about plans for improving the state of their infrastructure, and the tone of that was quite professional. So at worst, his attempt at a sex joke here was pretty lame and fell flat, because there was no build-up to it at all.

  • Linus Tech Tips apology video - BEST PARTS
  • I think I took the time to fairly and productively as possible express my viewpoint, backed with some reasoning and additional information, without trying to insist that I am without a doubt correct and everyone else is wrong. I acknowledge that others may not feel the same way. So in what way is flaming without adding anything productive to the conversation more helpful than what I shared?